Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-05-12
THE LATEST FASHION.

Very high collars are no longer good
form.
novelty in parasol handles is made of
trae Sevres porcelain.
There is nothing too bizarre for the
present fashion in bonnets.
The Anglomaniac's favoite watch-cbarm
Is an English sovereign.
1t is again the fashion for men to wear
gloves on all possible occasions.
Wide fringes of small beads are used
Tor tabliers or dressy toilets.
Tiny butterflies in green gold, set with
gems, are appropriate for scarf pins.
Large quantities of lace will be used
upon the coming seasons millinery.
A Paris correspondent writes that the
hlgn nat mas received Its quietus there.
The princess of Wales is setting fash
ION of wearing highly perfumed gloves.
Brides gowns are more simply made
than has hitherto been deemed necessary.
A new machine-made Lace resembling
the genuine Chantilly is called Bayeux.
Rose mourannate and vert decouleuyre
are new tlnts often seen in Parisiaa bon
net shops.
Fancy duck and Marseilles in blues
drabs, and buffs will be much worn this
summer.
The "Direetoire" costoms, let us hone
In modified form, threaten to become
fashionable.
Parasols are quite large, with ten broad
cores, and handles long enough to serve
as alpenstocks.
Bands of velvet, soutache, or passe-
menterle are greatly fancied across the
front ard sides of dresses.
In the trimming of spring bonnets the
careful avoidance of anything like mono
tone is very noticeable.
Drab is still much worn in milI;,erv
and there are many natural colors that
match 1T exactly in tone.
Sweet simplicity is the fashion in
Parfs. Gowns are cut to hang in strait
and fat folds allegedly classical.
The balayeuse has completely disap
peared from the bottom of gowns. A fat
band of broad braid takes its place.
Plain cloth jackets are considered very
stylish with Tapped and strapped seams,
bone buttons, and striped silk Innings.
New violet, fawr, and green cloth dres-
ses are embroidered in silk cord and silver
for visiting and church wedding toilets.
Corded edges are appearing on basoues
again; the dress fabric is used on WOODEN
costumes: silk may be corded with velvet.
Pointed and leaf designs in solid and
open Jet passementerie continue the
handsOmest trimming for wrans and h,ack
silk dresses.
Antwerp blue, bronze brown, vatican
PINK, laurel, oxidized silver, heliotrope.
Inolan red, and Russian gray are new
shades for spring wear.
About the most sensible in mems fash
IONS this spring is the general adoption
OF comfortable knickerbockers for ont.
door wear.
Bouffant draperies and irregular ar
rangements are the especial features of
spring trimmed skirts, and shawl points
are decidedly popular.
The problem of how to curb the unfort-
innate tendency makeup scarf has to
climb over the back of it's wearer's head
| is not yet fully solved.
! Enameled maritime signals, in combi-
nation with coils of rope or other en-
blems of the sea, are popular as scarf
pins among the people who don't own
yachts.
The fashionable evening corsage is
either cut en- colur back and front, the
sleeves very short and crossed on the
shoulders, Or cut en- rond and trimmed
with flowers.
! Luede gloves, with four rows of broad,
black stitching, soil very quickly and
make the wearer's hand look broad and
| clumsy, but they are the fashion for all
| that.
| Among the novelties in bracelets is one
| consisting of a number of ornamental
| square or round links, about half an inch
apart through which passes wider braid
of woven work.